Born
8 December 1951
Works
24
"William McGuire "Bill" Bryson is a best-selling Anglo-American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and science." - Wikipedia
A short history of nearly everything
Bill Bryson
Notes from a small island
A Walk in the Woods
The Lost Continent
Down Under (In a Sunburned Country)
Neither here nor there
At Home
Shakespeare
The Mother Tongue
Made in America
The Body
The Penguin dictionary of troublesome words
Notes from a Big Country
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
The road to Little Dribbling
A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
One Summer
Seeing Further
I'm a stranger here myself
Bryson's dictionary for writers and editors
Bill Bryson African Diary
Prentice Hall Literature -- The American Experience
1927
The Best American Travel Writing 2000